Advantages

• Show performances and standards
• Create levels of work from poor to exceptional
• Can assess softer skills such as communication skills

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Disadvantages

• May be difficult to determine the level they should be assessed at (can students fall in the middle?)
• Areas of assessment may be too big and therefore difficult to assess
• Logic or wording may be fuzzy
• Students find rubrics difficult to understand

Examples

Podcast example project and rubric information

Project example from Mrs Fabbri (Math): http://mrsfabbripchs.wikispaces.com